What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONYou become what you think about all day long.
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The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
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What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
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The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.
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Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.
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It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.
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If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
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The only way to have a friend is to be one.
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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.
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We acquire the strength we have overcome.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
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Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
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Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.
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Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
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